General Discussion
Have I got this right?
A couple (do they have to be married/in a civil partnership or will co-habitees qualify as well?) who between them earn up to £300,000 will qualify whilst a single parent who would love to get back to work and get off benefits etc, won't.
Is that what is being put forward?
Thank you B.
Seems crazy idea to me.
If one earns £150,000 and the other £149,000 yes you qualify, thats what I heard on the radio yesterday, an interview with an MP.. I would have thought an imcome of £299,000 is enough without benefits.
It will only come into force if the tories win the next election so is it an attempt to gain more votes a promise or just another wild idea.
Well, if it is an attempt to gain more votes I should think they have verily p****d off those tory voting couples who are parents and where one is staying at home looking after the kids.
Remember it is those very self same people (one going to work, one staying at home looking after the kids) who have lost their child benefit.* Whilst next door another two parent family, also earning very nicely thank you but where both of them are going our to work have not only retained their child benefit but now will also be able to claim this child care as well.
*Forgotten the amount. Think it is about £40,000. So, you can have two parents earning, say, £39,000 each and they still get child benefit but next door where one parent works and one stays at home if the parent who works earns more than £40,000 then that couple have lost their child benefit.
Tory Family Values ? what happened to that? More help should be given to one working parent families, where one partner is staying home to look after the children properly, not being foced to place them in paid care. David "we want to reward hardworking parents" only if they are high earners!! I should think he has peed off every lower and middle earner in the Country. They havnt got a clue, why dont they just make the Great Borough of London a seperate Country and lets have a gov in touch with reality for the rest of us